This is the basic and conceptual question from Chapter name- Arithmetic Progression
Chapter number- 9
Exercise 9.1
Here we have nth term(-1)n.2n of the AP and we are asked to find the first term of it.
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Question 1 ( v)
Given:
By putting n = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 we get first five term of the sequence
a1 = (-1)1 . 21 = -2
a2 = (-1)2 . 22 = 4
a3 = (-1)3 . 23 = -8
a4 = (-1)4 . 24 = 16
a5 = (-1)5 . 25 = -32
∴ The first five terms are -2, 4, -8, 16, -32